Mikhail Minakov

Der postsowjetische Mensch

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Beschreibung

Während der postsowjetischen Periode versuchten die Bürger der UdSSR-Nachfolgestaaten, freie Politik und Wirtschaft zu etablieren sowie kollektive Emanzipation und persönliche Freiheit zu erlangen. Minakovs Analyse dieser politischen Kreativität trägt dazu bei, Lehren aus der postsowjetischen Periode zu ziehen.

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Dr. Mikhail (Mykhailo) Minakov has been a Senior Advisor at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, since 2017. He is a prominent Ukrainian philosopher and empirical investigator who taught and researched, for over twenty years, at various universities in Ukraine, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States. Working between Kyiv, Washington and Milan, Minakov specializes in political and social theory, international development, as well as the history of modernity. He is editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed Ideology and Politics Journal published by the Good Politics Foundation in Kyiv. He also edits the Kennan Focus Ukraine blog, and philosophical web portal Koinè. Minakov is the author or co-author of twelve books as well as numerous articles in philosophy, politics, and history.